pt

¹ American  

abbreviation

1. pint; pints.

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Pt ² American  

Symbol, Chemistry.

1. platinum.

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PT ³ American  

abbreviation

1. Pacific Time.

2. part time; part-time. Also P/T

3. physical therapy.

4. physical training.

5. postal telegraph.

6. post town.

7. pupil teacher.

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pt. ⁴ American  

abbreviation

1. part.

2. payment.

3. pint; pints.

4. point.

5. port.

6. preterit.

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Pt. ⁵ American  

abbreviation

1. Point.

2. Port.

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p.t. ⁶ American  

abbreviation

1. Pacific Time.

2. past tense.

3. post town.

4. pro tempore.

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PT ¹ British  

abbreviation

1. physical therapy

2. physical training

3. postal telegraph

4. pupil teacher

5. (in Britain, formerly) purchase tax

6. prothrombin time

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Pt ² British  

abbreviation

1. Point

2. Port

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symbol

1. platinum

pt. ³ British  

abbreviation

1. pint

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pt ⁴ British  

abbreviation

1. part

2. past tense

3. patient

4. payment

5. point

6. port

7. pro tempore

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abbreviation

1. Portugal

pt. Scientific  

1. Abbreviation of pint

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Example Sentences

Shuddering, he bolted from the PT room and back into the corridor, where he very nearly rammed right into a resident named Lois Stein, who was sitting in an easy chair, doing her daily crossword puzzle, with the help of a magnifying glass that made the eight-point font in the newspaper legible to her eighty-nine-year.old eyes.

From Literature

Julio was sitting in the PT room, in a chair amid all the torture equipment, grimacing into the phone like he was the one being tortured.

From Literature

“Given the evident de-rating across the software sector, we’re trimming our PT from $650 to $600,” analyst Karl Keirstead wrote.

From Barron's

Synchronized activity was seen in PT and CT neurons, both of which send signals back to the thalamus.

From Science Daily

Shattering the stillness of a winter morning, the car’s cold-start cycling sounds like someone is docking a PT boat at the curb.

From The Wall Street Journal